Seven Different Linux/BSD Firewalls Reviewed

Damn, no wonder you hadn’t posted in a few days. Nice article. I tried smoothwall before and found it to be very well implemented. The only problem is that I didn’t have two nics in the system, and there are no expansion slots. It wouldn’t recognize a usb nic when I plugged it in, either. But, it’s simple to install, and has a great interface. I’ll have to try some of these others you list here. Thanks.

my fav has to be IPCOP. 🙂

Nice article Wayne. My personal preference is m0n0wall. I run it for our ISP servers and it works very well.

Currenly RAM usage is around 40MB and I haven’t seen the first hiccup (knock on wood).

Interesting article, but one thing that hasn’t been mentioned is energy usage.

An old PC running a 220watt ac power supply is going to pull way more than a tiny 4.5volt router/firewall. In a couple of years the cost of running the archaic machine may well be more than the initial outset of buying/running a router. An untested thought, but probably.

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Yeah, I understand volts and watts, I didn’t bother to guess at how many watts it may be using.

I’d love to something like this myself, but don’t have the time to.

An advantage over a router is that if something goes wrong in the pc, repair is more flexible. When an all-in-one router goes, there isn’t a whole lot you can do (with exception to opening it up and testing components etc..)

Right, back to work!

Good article. Hope someone finds use of it, I certainly have found it useful to be made aware of distro options.

Thanks.

I’ve used pfsense in numerous roles throughout the past 2 years. The load balancing portion of it is bar none the best, you also get failover and aliases as part of that. The support community is outstanding and there is commercial support available.

I’ve used for years m0n0wall (easy, speedy) and ipcop (easy, many addons).
I’ve tried a couple of times endian firewall with tons of features but I left it because it seem slow to me.
Now I use Untangle (http://www.untangle.com/). It has everithing you could need and it is faster than endian.

I tried a few of the installations reviewed over the past 4 years and can only reflect on my own experiences. The one I use at home is IPCOP. I install it for schools as well. Why, because it simply does all I want it, rock solidly.
I have to put a bit of a defence here for this community based distro, since I feel the article doesn’t really reflect IPCOP’s features fully.

Why is the simplistic purplish web interface worse than the orange one in smoothwall? Add-ons available allows you to do sooo much, why not on par with the rest? Add-ons installation (and finding them) may not be the easiest CLI experience for a noob, but it ain’t rocket science either.

Also, Endian is built on IPCOP, I think 1.4.8, upwards, with most of the add-ons pre-installed. If you want a pretty interface, fully functional IPCOP, get Endian…

IPCOP rocks!

I like Endian because of its smooth integration with the dansguardian filter. I have not seen another free firewall product that integrates either squidguard or dansguardian as easily. I do agree that setup of endian is not as easy as it could be, but I have found it to be worthwhile for the simple filtering capabilities.

I’ve been using Mandriva’s DrakFirewall for all my firewall setup. It is built on top of Shorewall, and have found it simple and effective in everything any would want to do.

I tested all these firewalls (+ MikroTik).
As the worker has chosen pfSense.
The best now also it is not necessary to me!

But chose MikroTik.

Another candidate for your next review – comixwall.org. I’ve been waiting for the 4.2 release, which just can out this month, to take look at it. It’s based on OpenBSD, which is what I’ve been using for a firewall, so I’m hoping it’ll be an easy switch. Would be interesting to see how it stacks up against the ones you’ve reviewed.

I am using Pfsense’s firewall in bridge mode, like a transparent firewall. And it works great! I don’t need a router, you just drop it where you want the network to be protected without any router config. Good stuff!

I use SME (http://www.smeserver.org/) and like it but will be splitting my setup to a firewall & server to enable IM monitoring that SME just does not do.

Have tried ClarkConnect & eBox but SME is more open and will work with an old SCSI tape drive that the others will not. Better printer support with XP boxes with SME.

OK, I like pfSense the best myself, but the GUI is clearly a step down (other than the added functionality) compared to m0n0wall. How any other product listed rates as having a better GUI that m0n0wall is beyond me. The simplistic, intuitive and highly refined GUI of m0n0wall is part of what makes the firewall so attractive.

Yes pfSense is better, but it hardly has a better GUI.

Im a freelance linux consultant, ive tried monowall and smoothwall and pfsense but not the endian and clarke connect, thank you for your reviewed. Hope you can also review Astaro and Fosswall.

Regards,

I am using IPcop since last 2years. we are most of the featuers of it. & so far we performance was excellent.

Do any of these have anti virus built in?
If so which ones are free and what ones are subscription based?

These products demonstrate why FreeBsD et. al. are…garbage. Spent 4 hours on Smoothwall and the docs suc, the software sux, and I want my 4 wasted hours back. Hooray for WINDOWS and associated products!!

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You have played with a lot of firewalls. I am thinking of using either IPCop or pfSense, but I have a complication. I want to also run Nginx as a http load balancer and http caching server in the same machine. Any suggestions on what my final choice might be. I am running on CentOS 5.3 x64.

Thanks

Hey, great Review, i tried the following firewall,
Clarc connect, Endian Firewall, Fsence, monowall, smooth wall and Untangle. why co’z its my job as a network security administrator, you have to try all the opensource in the market. And make your network very tight secure but FREE!!!. all the company right now are looking for that. I am using untangle for more than a years now, it has everything that i need
and yet im not satisfied, Web filtering, anti virus, proxy, vpn, etc. as in everything. but i can say its not yet that secured, so i came up in to this solution. why dont you set up a two best firewall that you want, and let them work together. having two firewall is more secure rather than single one.
for what ive tested this firewall is really great.

Untangle (you have to pay for some feature’s)
like:
fail over
Kaspersky AV
Load balance
Branding
etc. but really greate

Endian firewall

clarck connect

Fsence

hope this can help those guys that dont know yet what to used.

just email me if you need more explanation…

I came upon this site years ago, probably the same year that this article was blogged. I’m back again testing the same software, only this time in a VM and with much more knowledge. I had narrowed my choices down to 3 which are m0n0wall, Pfsense, smoothwall. The only thing I liked about smoothwall was the IM proxy and the footprint. Otherwise, it’s features are pretty comparible to any router marketed today. I’d probably recommend this to the casual home network. I recently knocked it off my list beceause both m0n0wall and pfsense now support the IM proxy.

Needless to say, both BSD versions of the routers have an extensive bandwidth implimentations including Advanced QoS bandwidth throttling AND shaping and both are able to successfully shape P2P traffic in ways that ISP’s had done it based on L7. This is needed for todays highspeed internet and network traffic. Both have captive portals now and a wealth of security and other options FREE, that you probably wouldn’t even find in a single package in 1000 dollar corporate switches. However Pfense seems to do better at all of this of m0n0wall, plus it has an integrated modular system which is a bonus, to add stuff from a repository. Now with 2.0 around the corner, there are a lot of improvments and new features like multi-wan, oh, and I pfense has VLAN, not just vlan tagging like the rest.

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